Me too. Absolutely last option to use my iPhone - and I don't like Facebook's/Instagram's interpretation of copyright and use. Would definitely only post small images with heavy watermarks and/or links to photos and videos for advertising purposes.

Edited July 19, 2018 by Niels Quist

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Instagram started life as a fun iPhone app with a square polaroid look but it is now a really major marketing tool for professional photographers. There is a lot of world class photography on Instagram as well as loads and loads of all sorts of stuff - remind anyone of anything? The benefits probably far outweigh the risk of somebody stealing your pics and making money out of them.

You don't need to use a phone to take pictures for Instagram. You need a phone or tablet to upload pics using the app.I certainly don't upload phone pics. I upload some of my best work to showcase it and raise my profile.

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Me too. Absolutely last option to use my iPhone - and I don't like Facebook's/Instagram's interpretation of copyright and use. Would definitely only post small images with heavy watermarks and/or links to photos and videos for advertising purposes.

I generally use my phone for twitter - a couple of shots of teams warming up before a match with both teams tagged usually results in retweets which gets my site seen by a good number of people who may be interested in the shots of the match. I have to work Instagram into something similar but I don't seem to be finding a natural workflow to it.

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Instagram started life as a fun iPhone app with a square polaroid look but it is now a really major marketing tool for professional photographers. There is a lot of world class photography on Instagram as well as loads and loads of all sorts of stuff - remind anyone of anything? The benefits probably far outweigh the risk of somebody stealing your pics and making money out of them.

You don't need to use a phone to take pictures for Instagram. You need a phone or tablet to upload pics using the app.I certainly don't upload phone pics. I upload some of my best work to showcase it and raise my profile.

I suppose I'm a bit ignorant when it comes to social media. Can someone explain the benefits and how it promotes your work, I can't see image buyers searching Instagram for images.

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Guys and gals leaving details here - don't forget to follow back. It's kinda polite. You don't have to actually like anything but at least gizza follow. Most that I've followed from here are following back but there are a few who are not and have been active since dropping their usernames here.